[Pflienews] PharmFacts E-News Update: Italian docs refuse to prescribe abortifacient

[PFLI PharmAid Center]

*PharmFacts E-News Update -- 6 Apr 2008 AD

*http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=57606

by Phil Lawler, CWNews.com Editor /*
Italian doctors refuse to prescribe morning-after pill*/ ^ 
<http://www.cwnews.com/news/rss/index.cfm>

Pisa, Apr. 3, 2008 (CWNews.com) - Two Italian doctors have refused to 
prescribe the [so-called] "morning-after" pill, sparking a new debate on 
the use of the abortifacient pill, the ANSA news agency reports.

The doctors refusing to prescribe the [so-called] "morning-after" pill 
are both located in Pisa. In one case, a young woman who went to a 
public health clinic found a notice on the door reading: "This office 
does not prescribe the so-called 'morning-after pill'." Another woman 
was rebuffed by a doctor at the emergency room of a local hospital.

Local health officials and public prosecutors both said they would be 
investigating the incidents. A local health official told ANSA that he 
would question both doctors, explaining: "Their behavior could be 
against the code of conduct." He added that a duty to prescribe the 
morning-after bill has "nothing to do with the issue of conscientious 
objection."

Some Catholic officials have taken a difficult view. Giuseppe Fiorini, 
the education minister of Italy's outgoing government, observed that 
"freedom of conscience is something that is clearly sanctioned by the 
Italian constitution."


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